Clipster is a multi platform cloud clipboard:
Copy a text on your smartphone and paste it on your desktop, or vice versa.
Easy, secure, open source.
Supports Android, Linux, MacOS, Windows and all browsers.
You can use the web front-end of the public server at clipster.cc.
For the Android client see Clipster-Android.
To run your own server check Clipster-Server.
There is an alternative Clipster-Desktop implementation written in Python.
Download clipster_linux.zip from the latest release, extract and start it.
To have Clipster auto start, right click on the systray menu and select Autostart Clipster.
Clipster depends on gtk-3.0. To install it on
Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-0
CentOS/RHEL:
sudo yum install gtk3-devel
Download clipster_win.zip from the latest release and extract it. Run clipster_win.exe in the clipster/bin/ folder.
To have Clipster auto start, right click on the systray menu and select Autostart Clipster.
The .zip file comes with GTK-3 files that the GUI depends on. Keep the folder structure under clipster/ so that the files can be found.
Download clipster_mac.zip from the latest release, extract, move it to Applications and start it via right-click -> open. You might get a warning message, that you need to ignore. If that fails:
Go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy. In the General Tab the App will be listed and you can start it from there.
To have Clipster auto start, right click on the icon in your dock and select Options --> Open at Login.
Notice: M1 processors (ARM architecture) are not (yet) supported.
On the first startup, you can register a new account or enter your existing credentials for the login. Your credentials will be stored in your HOMEPATH in ./config/clipster/config.yaml.
Clipster will add an Icon to your system tray which you can click for opening up a menu with the following options:
Get last Clip will fetch the last shared Clip from the server and put it into your clipboard.
Get all Clips will fetch all shared Clips from the server and display them to you.
Share Clip will share your current clipboard. Then, it's available for all your devices.
Edit Credentials allows you to register a new account or change your login credentials.
Autostart Clipster will add it to auto start.
Quit will terminate the app.
- Encrypt / Decrypt clipboard locally and only transmit encrypted data to server
- Add clipboard history: share multiple Clips
- Create Go version
- Add auto start feature
- Switch GUI from goey to gotk3
- Support image sharing
Contributions are very welcome. If you come across a bug, please open an issue. The same thing goes for feature requests.